Of the 260,000 people in a 21-county area of central and southeastern Indiana who get food assistance through Gleaners, 97,000 are children and 31,000 are seniors, Gleaners said.

The need is great. More than half of the households served by Gleaners through 250 charitable hunger relief agencies report annual income of $10,000 or lower and 70 percent live at or below 100 percent of the poverty level.

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